Couple of questions DP 9

Henry Robinett · Post by **Henry Robinett** » Sat Nov 14, 2015 10:49 am

Hey guys and gals. It's been many years since I've been here. I have a couple pf questions. Not sure if this is the right forum. Three days ago I finally upgraded to DP 9 from 7.24. I have had major growing pains having to upgraded software. But I don't yet have a new DP manual.

Is there yet a way to have alternate TO in the same chunk? IOW I have a tracking a session and a mixing session, but I don't want to split them into different chunks, for various reasons. It'd be great to just have a different TO for alternate routings. Just asking. It's complicated.

This one is easier I'm sure. I should know how to do this. In editing -- oops. I answered it myself.

MIDI Life Crisis · Post by **MIDI Life Crisis** » Sat Nov 14, 2015 11:11 am

There's a PDF manual under the help menu now.

MIDI Life Crisis · Post by **MIDI Life Crisis** » Sat Nov 14, 2015 11:12 am

Only 1 TO at a time.

Henry Robinett · Post by **Henry Robinett** » Sat Nov 14, 2015 11:16 am

MIDI Life Crisis wrote:There's a PDF manual under the help menu now.

Ah, thanks!

Henry Robinett · Post by **Henry Robinett** » Sat Nov 14, 2015 11:17 am

MIDI Life Crisis wrote:Only 1 TO at a time.

OK, thanks again. It's a pretty specialized request, I know.

mikehalloran · Post by **mikehalloran** » Sat Nov 14, 2015 11:23 am

If you're waiting on the box, it will have a quick start guide only plus a CD.

When I ordred my upgrade, I specified download only, received my install code same day and was surprised when the box arrived a couple of weeks later from MOTU (thanks, Sweetwater!).

Everything else is in .pdf. You can open the PDF file and save it separately. I have a shortcut to it on my desktop and like to keep it open on a separate monitor when trying to figure something out.

philbrown · Post by **philbrown** » Sun Nov 15, 2015 9:28 am

I don't know if this will help in your situation, but you can zoom way out vertically in the Sequence Editor making it look a little more like the TO. Seems obvious, but most people use the Sequence Editor zoomed in more than that, so... just a thought.

MIDI Life Crisis · Post by **MIDI Life Crisis** » Sun Nov 15, 2015 9:33 am

I was thinking the same thing, Phil. If it's MIDI, you can assign different colors to all tracks and view them in the MIDI editor. The main thing to be careful of is recording from there. Be sure the track you want is the one record enabled. That can be selected quickly from the Track Selector.

MIDI Life Crisis · Post by **MIDI Life Crisis** » Sun Nov 15, 2015 9:36 am

You can still select notes from any track to edit (drag, etc). Drawing curves for velocity, volume, etc. you still need to make it the active track. Single note data can be edited on random notes from the info bar or menu (region) commands.

Shooshie · Post by **Shooshie** » Sun Nov 15, 2015 10:31 am

I've done some amazingly complex things in MIDI requiring ingenuity not only musically but in workflow, just to make it happen in a DAW. I've never been hampered by a lack of windows. What others say about the Sequence Editor is good advice. You can use it like another Tracks Overview if you want. But the Tracks Overview is a very specialized window. Best bet is to learn to get around in it quickly, and to do things you may not know it can do.

Shooshie

Henry Robinett · Post by **Henry Robinett** » Wed Nov 18, 2015 12:27 pm

Thanks guys. I'm not a newbie. I've been on Performer since 1.2. I know TO and SE really well. I was just wondering whether anything new like that had been addressed in 9, since I was stepping up from 7.24. And I'm talking about audio, not so much MIDI. I regularly use three, sometimes four audio interfaces simultaneously I/O - ULN-8s. It gets a little unwieldy. It's difficult to make quick changes to routings when I have various outputs and inputs going to various boxes. It would just be very convenient to be able to snap on another TO with all the routings in place. Having a "saved as" file or a chunk set up is the next best thing. But then I have to drag the various tracks back to the mixing chunk. Or just route everything again, put the bundles in specific order so I can assign them all at once.

Thanks again!

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